KLHK Finds 621 Hotspots in Indonesia, Most in East Nusa Tenggara (Saturday, September 13, 2025)

Based on the SiPongi forest and land fire monitoring system of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK), monitoring in the last 24 hours shows that 621 hot spots (hotspots) were detected in Indonesia. This number of hot spots decreased by 99 compared to the previous period.

The data is the result of Terra/Aqua, SNPP, and NOAA satellite imagery accessed on Saturday (9/13/2025) at 11:41 AM WIB. Of the 621 detected hot spots, 20 spots had a high hotspot confidence level, 566 spots were on a medium scale, and 35 spots were on a low scale.

The hotspot confidence level is divided into 3 scales. A low scale has a range of 0 - 29, a medium scale 30 - 79, and a high scale 80 - 100. The higher the hotspot confidence level, the higher the likelihood of a forest and land fire occurring in a particular area.

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The most detected hot spots were in East Nusa Tenggara with 136 spots. East Kalimantan was in second place with the most hot spots with 70 spots. East Java was in third place with 70 hot spots.

A total of 61 hot spots were detected in South Sulawesi, followed by Southeast Sulawesi with 59 hot spots, and Central Sulawesi and West Nusa Tenggara each having 56 and 46 detected hot spots.

A hot spot is a coordinate point of an area that has a higher surface temperature compared to its surroundings, and not the number of forest and land fire incidents.

However, a large number of hot spots clustered in an area indicates the occurrence of forest and land fires. This means that hot spot data from remote sensing satellite detection is still the most effective for monitoring forest and land fires over large areas.

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